Annual Report 2016

Autoneum Annual Report 2016

Sustainability

Working Together to Ensure

Environmentally Friendly

Mobility

For Autoneum, sustainable conduct is not just an environmental and social

obligation but also an opportunity to generate corporate added value –

for instance with innovative products and technologies that contribute to

environmentally friendly mobility. Autoneum focuses on the careful

use of environmental resources, eco-efficient manufacturing processes and

a responsible working culture to ensure sustainable business success.

As a globally active company, Autoneum is

dependent on using raw materials and resources

across the world for its production. Autoneum

therefore endeavors to reduce the impact of raw

material utilization in the manufacturing process

and continuously strives toward enhancing

production facilities, implementing efficiency

guidelines for the procurement of machines and

materials and pushing ahead with the utiliza-

tion of recycled materials and closed material

cycles at the production facilities.

In order to ensure the greatest possible

eco-efficiency of its production processes,

Autoneum has set itself the target of gradually

reducing the materials and resources used

in production. In 2016, the Company therefore

launched several pilot projects at over 20 pro-

duction sites with the aim of implementing

corresponding improvement and cost-saving

measures for energy and water consumption,

waste recycling, greenhouse gas emissions

and acidification potential at all its production

sites as of 2017.

Higher energy and resource efficiency

Measures implemented for the first time in 2016

at the production facility in A Rúa, Spain, serve

to exemplify the eco-efficiency program. The focus

here lies on heat recovery through steam that

is released in the thermoplastic hot molding

process (THM). Before releasing the steam into

the atmosphere, it is used to heat up tools for

the manufacture of foam-based products. The

energy required for this process was previously

gained with heating the water by electricity.

The newly recovered heat reduces electricity

consumption for heating water by 98%. Further

savings have been achieved through the